Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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Table 20.
DISEASES NOTIFIABLE IN LONDON
Disease | Authority for Notification |
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Acute Encephalitis | P.H. Act 1936 (S.143); St.1949/2259. |
„ Influenzal Pneumonia - | P.H. Act 1936 (S.143); Sl.1953/299. |
„ Primary Pneumonia | P.H. Act 1936 (S.143); SI.1953/299. |
„ Poliomyelitis | P.H. Act 1936 (S.I43); SI.1949/2259. |
Anthrax | L.C.C. Order 1909; P.H.(L) Act 1936 (S.305). |
Chicken Pox | (Notifiable in Port of London only). |
Cholera | P.H.(L) Act 1936 (S.192 & 304). |
Diphtheria | P.H.(L) Act 1936 (S.192 & 304). |
Dysentery | P.H.Act 1936 (S.143); SI.1953/299. |
Enteric Fever (including Typhoid and Paratyphoid) - | P.H.(L) Act 1936 (S.192 & 304); SI.1953/299. |
Erysipelas | P.H.(L) Act 1936 (S.192 & 304). |
Food Poisoning | F. & D. Act 1955 (S. 26). |
German Measles | (Notifiable in Port of London only). |
Glanders | L.C.C. Order 1909; P.H.(L) Act 1936 (S.192 & 305). |
Hydrophobia | P.H. Act 1936 (S. 143). |
*Leprosy | P.H. Act 1936 (S.143); SI.1951/1036. |
Malaria | P.H. Act 1936 (S.143); SI.1953/299. |
Measles | P.H.(L) Act 1936 (S.192); SRO.1938/1100; SRO.1940/205 and SI.1948/420. |
Membranous Croup | P.H.(L) Act 1936 (S.192 & 304). |
Meningococcal Infection | P.H. Act 1936 (S.143); SI.1949/2259. |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | L.C.C. Order 1910; P.H.(L) Act 1936 (S.192 & 305); SRO.1926/971 & 1937/35; SRO.1928/419. |
Plague | P.H. Act 1936 (S.143); LGB. Reg.1900. |
Puerperal Pyrexia | P.H. Act 1936 (S.143); SI.1951/1081 and si.1954/1691. |
Relapsing Fever | P.H.(L) Act 1936 (S.192 & 304). |
Scabies | P.H. Act 1936 (S.143); SRO.1943/1016. |
Scarlet Fever | P.H.(L) Act 1936 (S.192 & 304). |
Smallpox | P.H.(L) Act 1936 (S.192 & 304). |
Tuberculosis | P.H. Act 1936 (S.143); SI.1952/704. |
Typhus Fever | P.H.(L) Act 1936 (S.192 & 304). |
Whooping Cough | P.H.(L) Act 1936 (S.192); SRO.1938/1100, 1940/205; SI.1948/420. |
Yellow Fever | (Notifiable in Port of London only). |
Zymotic Enteritis, or Summer Diarrhoea | (Notifiable in 9 Metropolitan Boroughs only - not, notifiable in Stepney), |
*Notifiable to the Ministry of Health.
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